Pound Road West Upgrade

Beyond Monitoring integration of 2,500 geotechnical and survey sensors, delivering high-uptime real-time insights for two active mine sites and tailings dams.

The Pound Road West Upgrade Project

Seymour Whyte, an Australian subsidiary of VINCI Construction, is currently undertaking the construction of the project in collaboration with Major Road Projects Victoria. The project involves construction of a new bridge over an existing rail line in the south-east of Melbourne, to improve local road connectivity, provide better access to the freeway network, and reduce travel times for local businesses.
This initiative is a key component of the biggest suburban road upgrade program in Victoria’s history.

The situation

On either side of the bridge, earth embankments are constructed to support the roadway and elevate it prior to crossing the rail line. The roadway and bridge are designed to operate within strict tolerances of movement, therefore the settlement of the soil underneath the embankments requires monitoring to ensure it compresses as anticipated by design.
Sixense Oceania has been contracted by Seymour Whyte to provide a settlement monitoring system for the road embankment. The objective is to validate any unforeseen ground movements, thereby improving the overall safety and stability of the project.

What we’ve delivered

Sixense implemented an innovative settlement monitoring method known as the Tilt Array Chain (LT-Inclibus). This system effectively monitors local tilting along a line, assuring the alignment, distance, and measuring axis orientation between the gauges.
The monitoring system is specifically designed to automatically record data and transmit it through a wireless communication link, utilising solar energy as its power source. This solution allows cost-effective real-time data collection.
Geoscope, Sixense’s monitoring software, enables remote data access with interactive views and graphs for all instruments. It facilitates the management of automated alarms and reports, supporting decision-making.